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UN top job door open?
 The spillover from the UNP's National List selection continued last week with former Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando criticising the Party's leadership while heaping praise on President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

The former minister also said his hopes of securing the top job at the UN were still alive but said he was bitter at not being appointed to Parliament from the Party's National List.

"When one door closes, a hundred others open," he said. One, he must be hoping, will be the door to the office of the UN Secretary General's.

Latching on
 Television news bulletins in the past week have been flooded with pictures of the newly appointed ministers and deputy ministers assuming duties at their new jobs.

And this time it was not only the wives and children who were standing by but also the former ministers, many of who had shown up to show support to their successors.

When one sets the trend, many more seem to have latched on to it even though the looks of disappointment on many faces were plain to see.
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